My Awesome Kids

I am allowed to be totally biased, but I think my kids are just awesome. Lately I've been in a "wow-I-just-want-to-sit-and-be-with-these-amazing-people" mood which is infinitely better than the "what-could-they-possibly-want-&-need-&-why-are-they-bugging-me" mood that some times persists. Here are some of my favorite recent shots and videos of the Click Clack Mafia.

Touching up their lipstick on the Underground.
Enjoying the spring day
Such loving sisters, most of the time!
Little L loves to be outside.
I had forgotten just how much kids love the carousel. Big Ben is in the background.


Pop stars with their cousin Will. (N has the Skype headset on!)
What kid doesn't love the ball pit?!
They played on this zip line thing for about 30 minutes.
This is in the middle of the UK version of WalMart. What a pose.
I'm embarrassed to say the manager saw this and pretty much shook his head in disgust and asked us to please stop.

Homeschooling in the sun.
L loving on a babydoll.

What is this stuff?
Dirt you say?

Yes...I tried to eat it.

Kidisms-

• V tells me she's wondering what Jason's graduation will be like since she's never been to one. Before I can explain it to her, N pipes up with, "Valla, don't worry... it's gonna be just like the High School Musical graduation...except no singing."
• V was trolling an Endangered Animal website, as she often does, and noticed the Snow Leopard was on the list. "How can it still be endangered?? My class sent in money and adopted it last year?!"
• I was cooking using fish oil which stinks to high heaven and N asked, "Can you please turn that smell down?"
• The girls were playing with glitter and glue and N comments, "That glue is wicked.... I mean wackeded....I mean liquid!"
• V & Mary were trying to figure some thing out and were having trouble. Mary says, "What the hell?" V says,"That's what I said!"
• I asked N what's the best thing about being 4. She said, "Being a great colorer and always being with Mommy and Daddy."
• V had heard us talking about the Somalian pirates and said she bet she knows why they are doing bad things, "I bet they are drunk, cause pirates get drunk a lot." A little too much Pirates of the Caribbean influence maybe?!
• We were planting some pansies and as she's digging V is getting uncomfortable touching the dirt and comments, "This garden is filthy!"
  

V sharing with her cousin... on the Underground.

N, being a jokester, absolutely loved April Fool's Day, or Happy Fool's Day as she called it. We heard this a million times on 4/1...

L is at the stage where she is imitating and mimicking everything! Here she is "writing."

She also helps with the laundry...

L took her first steps the other day! She's 10 months, V & N took theirs at 13. But she crawled at 6 and wants to be up and chasing them so bad I'm not surprised.

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